On the American Sunrise program, GAI Research Director Seamus Bruner reviewed newly declassified JFK assassination files—80,000 documents just released from the National Archives. Are there any earth-shattering revelations? Has key information been buried for decades?
Bruner analyzes the files and questions why they remained classified for so long. He also discusses with the host and another panelist the CIA’s role, President Kennedy’s tense relationship with the intelligence agencies, and a shocking 1994 document in which Kennedy’s son allegedly called Joe Biden a “traitor.”
“Nothing earth-shattering,” Bruner said. “It is a huge win for transparency, though. Promises made, promises kept. I was going through them all last night. Really, really fascinating stuff. What strikes me, though, is there are still a few redactions and, pages missing. But those redactions and missing pages go back to previous administrations. So what’s really unsettling is if there was anything, juicy, it would have been removed potentially years or decades ago. And if there wasn’t anything earth-shattering in these files, why did it take so long to declassify them?”